A lot of it is his upbringing; the repressive household plus the idea that as a man and head of household he can do no wrong. He might make mistakes, but it's always someone else's fault. One of the reasons I don't have much sympathy for him is the last part; I think it's important to hold him and his family accountable for the problems they've created here and the impression that they can issue a non-apology and whitewash the whole thing.
I think it's important to hold him and his family accountable for the problems they've created here
Yes. This is not just a guy with problems, it's a repressive ideology that produces problems like his. It will continue to do so as long as it can hide behind divine forgiveness and avoid a reckoning for the effects it has on society and its members' psychologies.
I agree with you. However, if the whole list of my mess-ups were suddenly on the cover of People magazine, i'd be doing everything I could do to exit stage left and get the fuck out of the limelight before it ended my marriage and destroyed everything I'd built up until that point.
But, he gets dragged back onto the world stage once again and ridiculed. Until the next whipping boy shows up.
Part of the problem is that he keeps bringing it on himself. He doesn't just say "yes, I was wrong. I'll stop preaching to other people about how they're being immoral." He uses each of his own fuckups as a platform to tell other people how they're sinners. So I still have no sympathy for him; when he stops being a hypocrite I'll agree it's time to leave him alone.
I'll have to defer to your knowledge over my own. I haven't followed anything about the guy, other than the molestation thing and now this.
I wouldn't be able to pick him out of a line up if my life depended on it.
A lot of it is his upbringing; the repressive household plus the idea that as a man and head of household he can do no wrong. He might make mistakes, but it's always someone else's fault. One of the reasons I don't have much sympathy for him is the last part; I think it's important to hold him and his family accountable for the problems they've created here and the impression that they can issue a non-apology and whitewash the whole thing.
Yes. This is not just a guy with problems, it's a repressive ideology that produces problems like his. It will continue to do so as long as it can hide behind divine forgiveness and avoid a reckoning for the effects it has on society and its members' psychologies.
I agree with you. However, if the whole list of my mess-ups were suddenly on the cover of People magazine, i'd be doing everything I could do to exit stage left and get the fuck out of the limelight before it ended my marriage and destroyed everything I'd built up until that point.
But, he gets dragged back onto the world stage once again and ridiculed. Until the next whipping boy shows up.
Part of the problem is that he keeps bringing it on himself. He doesn't just say "yes, I was wrong. I'll stop preaching to other people about how they're being immoral." He uses each of his own fuckups as a platform to tell other people how they're sinners. So I still have no sympathy for him; when he stops being a hypocrite I'll agree it's time to leave him alone.
I'll have to defer to your knowledge over my own. I haven't followed anything about the guy, other than the molestation thing and now this. I wouldn't be able to pick him out of a line up if my life depended on it.
His wife won't leave him, and partly blames herself for his bad behavior.
Wow,now that is just pathetic.